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They were five or six feet through at the butt.Father often said that the tree recorded within itself a true record of its own age.…Cited from The Bark Covered House, by William Nowlin

She started up with her fingers twisted at the butt of her gun.Cited from Riders of the Silences, by John Frederick

About twenty men then approached and drove their spears into the ground in a circle with the butts all leaning inwards.Many of the spears had a small piece broken off at the butt end.From these spears were then hung clubs, spears and shields, and native masks and fighting ornaments.…Cited from Wanderings Among South Sea Savages by H. W. Walker

When at some little distance from the town they halted, and Wallace ordered a tree to be felled and lopped of its branches.It was some eight inches in diameter at the butt and thirty feet long.A rope had been brought, and this was now cut into lengths of some four feet.…Cited from In Freedom's Cause, G. A. Henty

Very little space is lost at the butt.You have seen ears where the butt was all space.…Cited from Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming, by Ellen Eddy Shaw

One night we treed three coons in a big hollow oak.They started to cut down the trees an' put me at the butt with a fire bran'.When the tree fell the coons'd come out an' I was supposed to drive 'em back with the fire, jest lettin' out one at a time so's the dogs could kill 'em.…Cited from Slave Narratives: Kentucky, by Work Projects Administration

For example, angling appears to be a strong mental opiate.I have seen otherwise normal people stupefied beyond expression when at the butt of a rod and line.Happening to recall this effect, I instantly prescribed for my perturbed state of mind a good dose of fishing, to be taken as suited the day.…Cited from Noto/Unexplored Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell

The bow may consist of a switch of any elastic wood such as hickory iron wood, elm or birch.It should be about three or more feet in length, and as large as a man's thumb at the butt end.By bending it in the shape of the letter U it may easily be inserted in the skin, the latter being [Page 275] fastened by catching the lip on each side into a sliver notch cut on each end of the bow, as our illustration indicates.…Cited from Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping, by Gibson

The Dorins's house was raided by Auxiliaries in February 1921 and he was beaten up and thrown into the Liffey at the Grattan Bridge.He was shot at in the water and eventually managed to climb out of the river at the Butt Bridge.He was treated at Jervis Street Hospital for a week and then had to leave that hospital quickly because of a tip-off that it was to be raided in a search for wounded Republicans.…

The piece of timber to which Solomon had referred was the base log of a giant hemlock abandoned, no doubt, because, when cut, it was found to be a shell.It was open only at the butt end.Its opening was covered by an immense cobweb.…Cited from In the Days of Poor Richard, by Irving Bacheller

When she leaned back, felt an ache at the butt of my tongue.Cited from Ulysses, by James Joyce

The arrows are from nine to ten inches long, formed of the leaf of a species of palm, hard and brittle, and pointed as sharp as a needle.At the butt-end some wild cotton is twisted round, to fit the tube.About an inch of the pointed end is poisoned.…Cited from Manco, the Peruvian Chief, by W.H.G. Kingston

Seated here in solitude I have been musing over my life -- connecting events, dates, as links of a chain, neither sadly nor cheerily, but somehow, to-day here under the oak, in the rain, in an unusually matter-of-fact spirit.But my great oak -- sturdy, vital, green-five feet thick at the butt.I sit a great deal near or under him.…Cited from Complete Prose Works, by Walt Whitman

If I dried them a little and then put them in boxes they began to mold and soon would be a mass of mold.It always seemed to begin at the butt end and would gradually spread over the whole nut and then get inside and spoil it.I washed some in boric acid, others in formaldehyde, and that hardened them.…Cited from Northern Nut Growers Association, 21st Annual Meeting, by Various

I saw it alight in the partially closed wound and crawl home; then came others and others, little bands and squads of them, heavily freighted with honey from the box.The tree was about twenty inches through and hollow at the butt, or from the axe-mark down.This space the bees had completely filled with honey.…Cited from The Writings of John Burroughs, John Burroughs

Some cigarette receptacles contain unique design features at the butt entry point.

The largest ivy I ever saw buttressed one of the windowed walls with ten thousand cross-folded fingers and foliage of vivid green piled thick and high upon the teeth-marks of time.The trunk was a full foot through at the butt.A few years ago a large mound was uncovered near the ruin, and found to be composed of cinders, showing incontestably that the monks had worked iron ore very extensively, thus teaching the common people that art as well as agriculture.…Cited from A Walk from London to John O'Groat's, by Elihu Burritt

I saw it alight in the partially closed wound and crawl home; then came others and others, little bands and squads of them heavily freighted with honey from the box.The tree was about twenty inches through and hollow at the butt, or from the ax mark down.This space the bees had completely filled with honey.…Cited from Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, Etc, by John Burroughs

A small to medium sized tree, up to 25 metres tall and a stem width of 60 cm.The tree is often flanged at the butt and lower part of the trunk.Grey or brown bark, often with scales of bark which fall, leaving shallow depressions.…

They had come up quietly and Broken Tooth's dull-scented workers were unaware of their presence.Not fifty feet away Broken Tooth himself was gnawing at the butt of a tree.An equal distance to the right of him four or five of the baby beavers were at play building a miniature dam of mud and tiny twigs.…Cited from Kazan, by James Oliver Curwood